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Originally Posted by ThunderousPrime
This is really awesome! When did you guys get this idea and start prototyping it?
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We had the idea during the initial prototyping stage, about week 2 of build, but dismissed it. After we won buckeye week 5 we knew we had to do something in order to keep up with the elites so we went for it. We figured that unless we did something outside of the box that there was no way we could catch up to the teams that have been shaving down there time all season. We took two separate teams and develop two independent shooting concepts. One a dart in the lid and the claw concept you see here. The dart was very accurate however we could not find a simple way to let it go. After 2 weeks we had the claw finished well enough to comit too it. We made it out of metal after the initial plastic prototypes and it flew ok but alignment was supercritical. We made another rev of the shooter. It worked so we committed and made two. we finished the last launcher about 2 hours before we had to be at the airport. We really needed another rev of both. After messing with it all weekend About 10 min before allaince selection we got it hitting with the aid of a file to add another locking notch into it.
A special shout out to Mike D. From 233 for water jetting the pieces we need for the claw.
The rules also never explicitly say that I can't park a Boeing 747 right in the middle of the play field and use it as an obstacle for the other alliance. But after a little thought, something tells me that I probably should not do it. - dlavery [more] 
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